Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred on her instant rank among the theatrical nobility and who carved her own considerable and ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of the great English actors of both stage and screen ... She won the Tony for Best Actress in a Play in 1961 for her performance in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey.

By Stephen Galloway Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the post-war British ... In 1956, Devine invited her to join the newly formed English Stage Company, to be based at the Royal ...

Joan Plowright, the English actor whose decades-long career ... her her first and only Academy Award nomination, for supporting actress. At the 1993 Golden Globes, Plowright earned two awards ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was ...

Plowright first came to prominence among those unfamiliar with the English stage thanks to ... for which she won a Tony as best actress in a play. Joan Ann Plowright was born in Brigg ...

Joan Plowright, an era-defining English actress, is dead at 95. Plowright died Jan. 16 surrounded by her family, according to a family statement reported by the BBC and other British media outlets ...

By encouraging Olivier to align himself with the English Stage ... down-to-earth quality, Joan Plowright was once described as “an engagingly unglittering leading actress with a challenging ...

FILE – Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne’s play, ‘The Entertainer’ which opened on Broadway on Feb. 4, 1958. (AP Photo, File) By then ...